I might be missing something, but I am not aware of the time-scale for your search. Give me a time-span and I can do a quick hunt in the Family Records Centre here in London, next time I'm in Clerkenwell (I'm a mean so-and-so, and avoid subscribing to the on-line censuses!)
If it's 19th-century, to save you the effort, I can tell you that the IGI batch files for Elmton-with-Creswell [C054381 for christenings 1753-1810 & 1813-1868 and M054381 for marriages 1751-1810 & 1813-1836] have not one single Stephens/Stevens listed.
I know that the Creswell disaster is commemorated by a Miners' Chapel in the south aisle of St John the Baptist, Clowne (a window features the winding gear beneath a crucifixion). Many of the dead came from Clowne (which is about five miles west of Creswell, as I recall).
The nearest non-conformist churches and chapels, now and in the past, would probably be in Worksop and Clowne, so you might profitably refer to their records. I know from my own experience that several of my "hits" for my Derbyshire miner ancestors and collaterals come from the Methodist circuits.
Curiously, in the line of "great minds think alike", just after bashing out yesterday's posting, I was speaking to my next door neighbour (a Big Bod at the TUC -- now, there's class). Somehow, I asked him if he knew of Creswell and the pit disaster. I hadn't realised that the pit was working until 1991, by the way. The result of this chatter was the two of us swapping the verses (as well as we recollected them) of "The Gresford Disaster". The punch-line of the conversation was: "They don't make songs like that any more. Thank heavens, they don't need to."
Regards and good luck.
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